Talk:Transformers: Beast Wars Metals

Are we counting this as a separate franchise or not?

On the toy pages for basically every BW character I've looked at, there isn't a separate listing for Metals; rather, we list the U.S. toy and then at the end of the paragraph any differences in the "Japanese version." But we seem to have been a lot more rigorous in separating out the J-franchises from more recent years - look at Hot Rod (G1)/toys or Starscream (G1)/toys, we give Henkei and United equal billing to the American franchises. Was this a deliberate decision or just a leftover from 2006? And if it's the latter, should we update all the Beast-era pages? --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 15:27, 22 June 2015 (EDT)

Well, Henkei and United pull from a bunch of different sources, y'know, like, they're not a one-for-one comparable line, they have Generations stuff in them, they have Universe stuff in them. BWM doesn't do that, it's just "the bits from the BW toyline that were in the show." - Chris McFeely (talk) 16:09, 22 June 2015 (EDT)

Yeah, it's pretty analogous to the first BW series in Japan, which was pretty much "slightly altered versions of what we got plus like one or two new redecoes"... okay, Metals had a retool, but still. I don't see a need to split. --M Sipher (talk) 19:31, 22 June 2015 (EDT)